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Tens of thousands of patients each year in the United States alone wake up at some point during surgery. Why we still know so little about anesthesia’s effects on the brain.
Tens of thousands of patients each year in the United States alone wake up at some point during surgery. Why we still know so little about anesthesia’s effects on the brain.
A philosopher argues that taking love-altering substances might not just be a good idea, but a moral obligation.
Overabundant skepticism about genetic manipulation in sports may be as dangerous as the hype that heralded its arrival.
Robot-assisted hysterectomy became 20 times more common between 2007 and 2010. |
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A team of researchers has for the first time found a side effect of a common drug combination by looking at search queries.
Rosenbach Museum and Library
Transporting large quantities information has always been a challenge, including when that information was astrological tables and your medium was vellum.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Is the way we talk about the human mind messing with our ability to think about it clearly?
Denis Balibouse/Reuters
Beyond bombs and the indulgence of scientific curiosity, there are plenty of practical uses for particle physics.
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Online popularity reliably indicates quality care -- in this case.
NIH
Here's my biotech reading list. I'd love your help fleshing it out.
Cedars-Sinai
Where the evidence exists to support it, design has the potential to increase safety, promote healing, and even end up saving money.
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After a month spent playing video games in addition to their usual training, 21 surgical residents performed laparoscopies with significantly improved accuracy and economy.
Carlos Barria/Reuters
Even hands-free conversations are a safety hazard.
MIT
By dramatizing subtle changes, new software makes it possible to see motions that are normally imperceptible to us.
Sarah Twitchell/Flickr
Remote health monitoring is promoted as a more cost-efficient and comfortable way of managing chronic conditions.
A new app is "trying to democratize healthcare" -- in this case, through urinalysis.
Claudia Daut/Reuters
For people struggling to put food on the table and a roof over their heads, "voluntary" participation in clinical trials is a slippery slope.
ResinMuse/Flickr
Devices such as AEDs remain in a grandfathered status that allows them to bypass important regulation
William A. Zule et al./International Journal of Drug Policy
The designers of a low-dead-space syringe hope that their innovation could hamper the disease's spread among the estimated 15.9 million people who inject drugs worldwide.
Katratzi/Flickr
Could the solution to data storage turn out to be the carrying capacity of our own genetic material?
Steelcase
Mobile computing has changed the way we communicate, the way we work ... and the way we lounge.
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Broadening online worlds could help maintain and improve cognitive abilities in old age.
Robert Hooke
Imagine the world before the microscope.
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Jean Harlow died young, bedridden, and losing her hair.
